On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mary Meyer wrote:
> Yes, I would like to know what I *ought* to have done.
Ask on one list. For beginners, only send a bug report if encouraged
to do so by someome more experienced. Unless you are sure it is not
Mac-specific (or aboute Bioconductor), ask on R-sig-mac, not least
because Mac-specific questions on R-help will get lost and those on
R-devel might.
[Not just for Mary:]
Please only send bug reports for things you are *sure* are bugs:
because > 90% of bug reports are erroneous and they do take up too
much of R-core's time. But the ones that get me angry are the serial
offenders.
Also, please be patient: the experts are in short supply: Simon
Urbanek is currently travelling, I will be next month ....
Brian Ripley
>> Thanks again,
> Mary
>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>>>>> It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like this as
>>> bug (see recent post on R-devel).
>>>> Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully we seem to have solved the problem in
>> the meantiime.
>>>> The one thing I at least have learnt is that a note somewhere about how to
>> deal with this problem would be appropriate: perhaps in one of the FAQs.
>>>> Brian Ripley
>>>>>>>> Kasper
>>>>>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:50 , Mary Meyer wrote:
>>>>>>> Thank you, that worked! It's now again running happily.
>>>> Best,
>>>> Mary
>>>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>>>>> Yes, remove .Rhistory and possibly also .RData and your .Rprofile
>>>>> Kasper
>>>>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:29 , William Revelle wrote:
>>>>>> Mary,
>>>>>> A somewhat similar problem happened to me in January.
>>>>>> Following the advice of Byron Ellis , I removed the .Rhistory file
>>>>>> At 4:45 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>>>>>>> From the crash report it looks like perhaps your history file has been
>>>>>>> corrupted. I'd delete it and try again
>>>>>> At 5:43 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>>>>>>> It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>> At 9:11 AM -0700 3/2/09, Mary Meyer wrote:
>>>>>>> Help! I was running R code and started getting error messages that
>>>>>>> would not stop repeating. I force-quit R, but when I attempted to run
>>>>>>> it again, it would not start (Icon kept bouncing until I force-quit
>>>>>>> again). I restarted the computer, then I reinstalled R, but that did
>>>>>>> not fix the problem. I deleted everything I could find related to R,
>>>>>>> and installed again. Each time I install I get a "successful"
>>>>>>> message, but it does not start. I don't know what to try next.
>>>>>>> I have the latest versions of the operating system.
>>>>>>> Thanks very much for your time.
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>> Mary Meyer
>>>>>>> Statistics Department
>>>>>>> Colorado State University
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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